There is no shortage of fun, festive events in Haifa this month
The diverse, rich city of Haifa is once again hosting the annual Holiday of Holidays festival. The Haifa Municipality and Beit Hagefen are partnering up to honor this tradition - promising even more music, shows, flavors, tours and exhibits for the festival's 25th anniversary.
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Throughout the month of December Haifa residents and visitors can soak themselves in culture, cuisine, religion and landscapes. Just some of the events include concerts in Arabic and French, book launch parties, free language lessons, salsa dance lessons, dance and music shows, and tours including a graffiti tour and open houses tour where people can explore the outside and inside treasures of Haifa.
Every year, visitors from all over the country come to the festival to participate in a colorful celebration of music, poetry, theater, literature, art and more. The aim of the festival is to promote and foster tolerance and mutual respect through culture and art.
© Beit Hagefen
This year, Beit Hagefen Center will inaugurate a new space, "The Third Space: A Space for Art and Education". The space is the new wing of the Beit Hagefen Gallery that will offer an experience of combined works of art and activities that focus on acquiring skills for life in a multi-cultural society. This year there will also be exciting new tours, free Arabic lessons, special cultural events, street performances and music.
Enjoy a festive opening event on December 12 with the breakthrough show - "Around the day in eighty worlds": a song, dance and acting performance by the Mot Pour Mot - Marseille group. The show is in Hebrew, Arabic and French. One Thousand and One Nights depicts the Arab and Western culture and everything in between, and is about literary work and its translations. Produced by the Department of Cultural Studies from the university of Haifa, Media Noche - The Haifa Salsa community will host a Cuban Salsa party including lessons and dancing accompanied by instructors and dancers. The Oriental Rhymes is a traditional ethnic dance and music show from China. The Graffiti tour is a significant social statement where participants can understand more about the graffiti community, how important it is to create in a public space and how to cope with the tension between forbidden and permitted to continue to exist.
© Beit Hagefen
There will also be an Art and tasting tour between art and the culinary arts; an Open Houses tour around the city of Haifa; a Christmas Tour between the decorated streets, the illuminated Christmas trees, the churches and the private homes that flicker in colorful colors; and a Haifa Flea Market tour - discover much more than vintage shopping, with all the cool and antique items within the small secret alleys, architecture and history.
Keep in mind, tickets need to be purchased individually for each event and range from NIS 30-130.
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